An overall rent of €100,000 a year is sought for the ground and first floors of “the best pitch in Douglas.”

Ahead of Cork Fashion Week, we showcase some of the best style the city has to offer.

2014 was the busiest year on record in terms of the Irish investment market with more than €4bn worth of properties due to be sold by year-end. 

Many moons ago, The Menu took great pleasure in regularly visiting a wonderful old period home, Lettercollum House, in Timoleague, Co Cork, enjoying splendid meals based around organic produce grown on site afore heading upstairs for blissful repose in the collectively-run guesthouse. 

One of the largest retail investment portfolios ever brought to market in Ireland was yesterday launched by joint selling agents Savills and Bannon with a guide price of €120m.

A second Cork shopping centre complex, Douglas Court, developed by the Love family’s Shipton Group, is part of a retail-dominated portfolio that is for sale valued at €120m.

Cork City Council has given the go-ahead for further developments at Apple’s facility on the city’s north side, at Hollyhill.

Plans have been lodged for an extension to two units at the Douglas Court Shopping Centre in Cork, above.

A group of Cork’s hardiest business leaders toughed-out the rain and the cold to sleep rough in Cork City Gaol last night to raise up to €400,000 for homeless charity Focus Ireland.

A multi-million euro plan has been drawn up which will relieve traffic gridlock in a Cork suburb in the years ahead.

Douglas Farmer’s Market will be temporarily upping to new locations on Dec 15 and Dec 22.

A convicted rapist who was due to be sentenced yesterday for terrifying a woman and her elderly mother in a knifepoint hijacking at a shopping-centre car park in Cork died on Friday.

Irish/UK investment and development giant Green Property has been cleared for a joint £500m (€622m) Vauxhall, London borough development, which at 58 storeys will include Western Europe’s tallest residential tower.

SIGNS of recovery are evident at the country’s shopping centres with occupancy levels picking up, but retailers say existing tenants are being charged far more than newcomers.

IT needs a bit of dragging into the 21st century, but, otherwise, this three-bed, number 22, Belgard Downs, is a canny buy.

AN EMPLOYEE at the Douglas Court Shopping Centre is being treated for TB and the HSE is examining people who have had direct contact with them in case they have also contracted it.

BLUE SQUARE is pleased to announce the official launch of the free WiFi Internet service in Douglas Court Shopping Centre, Cork, Ireland’s first shopping centre to provide free wireless Internet access to its customers.

A MYSTERY Cork punter has 663,900 reasons to smile after scooping a share of the New Year’s Eve Lotto jackpot.

A US kids clothing retailer plans to shut all of its branches in Ireland by the end of this year.